Doha 167
बिलपहिं बिकल भरत दोउ भाई। कौसल्याँ लिए हृदयँ लगाई॥ भाँति अनेक भरतु समुझाए। कहि बिबेकमय बचन सुनाए॥१॥
भरतहुँ मातु सकल समुझाईं। कहि पुरान श्रुति कथा सुहाईं॥ छल बिहीन सुचि सरल सुबानी। बोले भरत जोरि जुग पानी॥२॥
जे अघ मातु पिता सुत मारें। गाइ गोठ महिसुर पुर जारें॥ जे अघ तिय बालक बध कीन्हें। मीत महीपति माहुर दीन्हें॥३॥
जे पातक उपपातक अहहीं। करम बचन मन भव कबि कहहीं॥ ते पातक मोहि होहुँ बिधाता। जौं यहु होइ मोर मत माता॥४॥
Meaning
Much agitated, the two brothers, Bharata and Śatrughna, loudly lamented and Kausalyā clasped them to her bosom. She comforted Bharata in many ways and tendered words of wisdom to him. (1) Bharata too in his turn consoled all his mothers, narrating legends from the Purāṇas and Vedas. Folding his hands he addressed them in guileless, innocent, simple and appealing words: (2) “The sins attaching to the murder of one’s mother, father or son and to the act of setting fire to a cowpen or a village of Brāhamaṇas, and those incurred by slaying a woman or child and by administering poison to a friend or a monarch, (3) “Nay, all the major and minor sins of thought, word or deed, that have been enumerated by the seers,—let all such sins be on me if, my mother, this plot has my concurrence.(4)
जे परिहरि हरि हर चरन भजहिं भूतगन घोर। तेहि कइ गति मोहि देउ बिधि जौं जननी मत मोर॥१६७॥
Meaning
“May Providence award me the fate of those, who forsaking the feet of Śrī Hari and Lord Śiva, worship frightful ghosts, if, mother, I have any complicity in this plot. (167)
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